Friday, 21 March 2014

Studio Brief 2 - Finalising My Grid and the First Spread

Today I created my grid from this exercise in InDesign. The result was this.


Initially I was happy with this, but then when I tested the rows using placeholder
text, I discovered that the text didn't align horizontally across the rows, which is
something I was upset with as a bit of a perfectionist, as shown below.


To get around this I had 2 options. The first was to change the font size and/or
leading of the text to make them align, but I'd already decided that 10pt text was
the size I wanted to use, and the 10pt leading fits that nicely. So I had to take up
the second option, which was to alter my grid slightly so that they aligned.


The above image shows how the text looks when it's all aligned. I also out in some
headings to make sure the body didn't encroach too much on them, and I was happy
with this, so my final grid is shown below. It isn't much different, I've just adjusted the
horizontals above and below the automatic row lines. 


As you can see, there's no immediately noticeable difference.

I only realised the difference this made when I added the content for my first spread.
I'd checked that body copy didn't encroach on the sub-headings, but I hadn't checked
if images encroached or not. I soon found that they did, as shown below.


The obvious solution to this was to make sure that I stuck to my initial grid when it
comes to images, which I reverted too below, and as you can see, it looks a lot
better due to the lack of encroachment.






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